Journalism
Now Peter Thiel’s Lawyer Wants to Silence Reporting on Trump’s Hair
Pictured: Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, and Charles Harder. Photos: Getty One day after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal attack on Gawker Media to the New York Times, Gawker reporter Ashley Feinberg published a lengthy investigation that sought to solve the enduring mystery of Donald Trump’s infamous mane, which she described…
Go ahead and hate Gawker, but don’t cheer its downfall – LA Times
Last week’s Gawker Media bankruptcy inspired online triumph. “What a beautiful day,” tweeted Hulk Hogan, whose $140-million invasion-of-privacy verdict — underwritten by hostile Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel — doomed Nick Denton’s snarky online empire. Most were less subtle. “Goodbye and good riddance to Gawker,” the New York Post sneered. It’s tempting to side with…
Donald Trump Goes to War with Washington Post
Holy hell, even I didn’t know that He, Trump was dumb enough to cancel the credentials of The Washington Post. But Tiger Beat On The Potomac was all over it. “Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony…
Trump revokes Post press credentials, calling the paper ‘dishonest’ and ‘phony’ – The Washington Post
The Post’s Margaret Sullivan explores what might have led Donald Trump to revoke the newspaper’s media credentials. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) Donald Trump said Monday that he is pulling The Washington Post’s credentials to cover his events because he is upset with the newspaper’s coverage of his campaign. The move puts the newspaper on a…
‘Repudiation of Free Press’: WaPo Editor, Staffers React to Trump Revoking Access | Mediaite
The Washington Post is reacting this afternoon to news that Donald Trump is officially revoking their press access over what he called a “dishonest” headline. Post editor Martin Baron issued this statement: Donald Trump’s decision to revoke The Washington Post’s press credentials is nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and…
Gawker’s Elizabeth Spiers: Against the Death Penalty for Media Companies | Heat Street
By Elizabeth Spiers | 11:38 am, June 11, 2016 Do you support a death penalty for media organizations? And if so, what crime is so heinous as to warrant it? Does persuading the American public that we should be dragged into a $2 trillion war over false claims of WMDs qualify? Does a large, enormously…
Gawker files for bankruptcy | TechCrunch
Begin: WordPress Article Content Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy today, according to documents filed in a Southern District of New York court. The filing comes as Gawker’s legal battle with the wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) drags on. Hogan sued Gawker after the site published a clip of his sex tape and a blog…
$1,884 to quote 300 words from The New York Times in a book: Two authors try to stand up for fair use » Nieman Journalism Lab
Obtaining formal permission to use three quotations from New York Times articles in a book ultimately cost two professors $1,884. They’re outraged, and have taken to Kickstarter — in part to recoup the charges, but primarily, they say, to “protest the Times’ and publishers’ lack of respect for Fair Use.” Two California professors, Daniel C….
Is there any such thing as a career in digital journalism? | Fusion
One of my obsessions these days is the question of whether there’s any such thing as a career in digital journalism. I’m still doing reporting on this question — if you have any empirical data on the subject, do let me know — but in the meantime, my working hypothesis is that the answer is…